"Workers should be empowered with the knowledge of how their hard-earned dollars are being spent."
"Instead what we are doing is engaging in what I believe is a political exercise to highlight what the chairman referred to as a 'culture of union favoritism' at the OLMS."
"the Obama administration has weakened union financial reporting requirements to the detriment of union members."
"the policies that are put in place in the United States government have--the union donations, the political candidates do have a major effect on the direction of policies in this government."
"Workers deserve to know how their hard-earned money is being spent."
"And everywhere I go in my district and, frankly, around the country, what I am hearing is that those Americans and their neighbors want us to find a way to work together to create an environment in wh..."
"Congress has a long-standing responsibility to shine a bright light on how the dues of union workers' are being spent."
"In fact, the opposite is the case. The average number of indictments by the OLMS in the Bush years was 122. The average number of indictments in the Obama years has been 126."
"the gainful employment rule is about regulating, making sure the taxpayer's money is being used efficiently."
"We had a student in my office in Kingsport, Tennessee, not long ago from a public university with a $72,000 debt."
"When you have private schools now, private universities that are $40,000 or $50,000 a year, and let us say you spend $250,000, in Tennessee, and you start teaching school, is that gainful employment?"